Ani DiFranco (b. Angela Maria DiFranco; September :23, 1970) is an
American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter and
businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely
considered a feminist icon. (Click
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Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

And you can't really place blame, 'cuz blame is much too messy. Some is
bound to get on you while you're placing it on me.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

I have earned my disillusionment.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

Life is a sleezy stranger who looks vaguely familiar, flirting with a
bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

Love makes me feel so dumb.

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social
diseases is patriarchy.

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

Those who call the shots are never in the line of fire.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

You've decided to love me for eternity and I'm still deciding who I want
to be today.

Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (b. September 22, 1931) is an English author,
essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism.
In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find
themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal
structure of British society. (Click
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly
developed.

A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not
have her best interests at heart.

Agree with your accusers, loudly and clearly. They will shut up sooner.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes
away.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

By and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you
wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am
I going to be today?'

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine.

Hell is not other people. Hell is no other people.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but
in the end certain.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but
no more kind.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe
that, without thinking to investigate.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want
the other to get away.

Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the
time.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or
unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

Moaning men are no fun.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it
sweeps in like the tide.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer
chance is an intolerable notion.

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths
corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in
death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely,
ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present
dissolves altogether.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with
desire any time.

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and
usually right.

There seems to be a general overall pattern in most lives, that nothing
happens, and nothing happens, and then all of a sudden everything
happens.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so
stop worrying.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have
through time, power and meaning.

Barbara Brown Taylor (b. September 21, 1951) is an American Episcopal
priest, professor, author and theologian and is one of the United
States' best known preachers. In 2014, Time magazine placed her
in its annual Time 100 list of most influential people in the
world. (Click
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Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can
walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or
to make things worse.

Every major spiritual tradition in world has something significant to
say about importance of paying attention.

Every one of us will change the world, whether we mean to or not.

Human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they
believe they are protecting God.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

I have found things while I was lost that I might never have discovered
if I had stayed on the path.

I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the
light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there
is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need
light.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious
certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

I think we'd like life to be like a train, but it turns out to be a
sailboat.

If outer darkness is the cloud where we store our inner fears, how much
will the real world suffer from our collective fear of the dark? How
much will we pay to fuel the engines that keep our world lit, rather
than doing what is necessary to feel safer inside ourselves?

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of
exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are
running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the
least.

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law
and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix.

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where
we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where
we actually are.

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated
insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason
so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are
standing on it.

Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take
responsibility for my choices.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door
he could lock instead.

The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it
means to be lost yourself.

The deep reason we need one another is to save us from believing in our
own self sufficiency.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main
impediment to living a life of meaning is being self- absorbed.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches,
and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God
sees the world the same way they do.

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible
there.

There will always be people who run from every kind of pain and
suffering, just as there will always be religions that promise to put
them to sleep.

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being
alive into some concrete common good.

To lie flat on the ground with the breath knocked out of you is to find
a solid resting place.

We are all so busy constructing zones of safety that keep breaking down,
that we hardly notice where all the suffering is coming from.

We are never more in danger of stumbling than when we think we know
where we are going.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing
that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess,
since this is where I am.'

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by
practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice
succeeds and when it fails.

Annie Besant (October 1, 1847 - September 20, 1933) was a prominent
British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and
orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule. (Click
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of
the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast
the shadows.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very
good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and
in the second it is inefficient.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone
who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to
act.

Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require
their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural
law.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote
which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

Everything which is of strife makes the vision of the truth more
difficult; everything which tends to controversy makes the grasping of
the truth harder.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is
becoming, but has not yet found its end.

'God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.'

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of
sight.

It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act
mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are
we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate
conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere,
and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor
by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against
class.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most
developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most
unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and
complex civilization, in another a crude and simple polity.

Morality is the science of harmonious relations between intelligent
beings.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if
you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you
are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find
many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual
life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon
one's attitude towards life.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants
in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do
they put their heads above the ground.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the
world as this good news of Atheism.

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever
be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may
grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right
thinking comes right practice.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we
disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind,
of an uncultivated intelligence.

Refusal to believe unless proof is given is a rational position, denial
of all outside our own limited experience is absurd.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why
not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral
evolution.

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere
waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which
intelligence could clothe itself.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly
interposing Supreme Power.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy,
misses no opportunity.

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever
it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the
country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs
shall bow down and become its servants.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness
without life.

This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed
merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men
were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of
unnumbered evils.

Thought creates character.

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions
of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co- workers with
God.

Where love rules, laws are not needed.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from
its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its
adherents.

Bergen Baldwin Evans (September 19, 1904 – February 4, 1978) was a
Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host. He
received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1957 for excellence in
broadcasting for his CBS TV series The Last Word.(Click
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A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her
feelings.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do
but marshal us the way that we are going.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom
to think.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the
able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by
their own inner torments.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their
colleagues.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical.... Any man who
for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that
moment betrayed humanity.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the
ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will
be to the advantage of the led.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and
there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of
life. The better control we have of our words, the more successful our
adjustment will be.

Christopher Lynn "Chris" "The Hedge" Hedges (b. September 18, 1956) is
an American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister.
Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books
including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)— a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction— Empire
of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
(2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), the New York Times
best seller, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction,
Days of Revolt (2012), and his most recent Wages of Rebellion:
The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015). (Click
here for full Wikipedia article)

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A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and
impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.
Take this away and a democracy dies.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its
liberty and freedom.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity,
a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Economics dominates politics- and with that domination comes different
forms of ruthlessness.

It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an
outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us
and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of
the blind.

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate
state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet
outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or
function independently.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and
dislike real journalists.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture
is designed to make that impossible.

Patriotic duty and the disease of nationalism lure us to deny our common
humanity.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human
endeavor.

The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal
narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state.
It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President
is Republican or Democratic.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next
installment.

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or
atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science
or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of
human nature and perfect the human species.

The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism.

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality
television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other
people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage,
and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and
tell the truth.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a
drug.

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who
embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and
those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a
mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a
world of magic.

The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those
who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the
cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and
chest-pounding grief.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in
exchange for a little power and privilege.

There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and
privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth
and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If
you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of
truth and justice.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and
greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless
of the cause.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by
mankind.

War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of
idealists by cynics, and of troops by politicians.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and
death.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit
from our deception.

We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make
minds, not careers.

Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS (July 28, 1902 –
September 17, 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and
professor. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest
philosophers of science of the 20th century.
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A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach
decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise,
rather than by violence.

All things living are in search of a better world.

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that
you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who
misunderstand you.

But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule
opens up the way for those who rule by hate.

By reluctance to criticize some of it, we may help to destroy it
all.

Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from
the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim
to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future
generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be
realized.

Freedom is not a supplier who delivers goods to our door. Democracy
does not ensure that anything is accomplished- certainly not an
economic miracle.

I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest
troubles spring from something that is as admirable and sound as it is
dangerous- from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the
beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without
organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of
change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events
unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead
one.

If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall
look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and
not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories.

It is our duty to help those who need help; but it cannot be our
duty to make others happy...

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to
victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we
choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous
stupidity than out of wickedness.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does
not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must
necessarily be infinite.

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness
principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent
dictatorship.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-
the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some
extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of
their own intelligence.

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants
to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;
all the time he is aware that he may be wrong.

Theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to
rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the
mesh ever finer and finer.

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency,
to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from
our own opinions.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number
of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but
a hell.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to
acquire it.

We are social creatures to the inmost center of our being. The
notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the
past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more
wrong.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or
that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form
of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully
responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities
depends on all kinds of things- and above all on ourselves.

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as
its prophets.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no
other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction
that we can learn through criticism of our mistakes and errors,
especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through
self-criticism.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take
this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the
problem which it was intended to solve.

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of
government. I personally call the type of government which can be
removed without violence 'democracy', and the other 'tyranny.'.

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers
shooting you to being convinced by you.

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930) served as the
27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and as the tenth Chief
Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held
both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor
of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow
Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a
third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed
Taft chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before
his death. (Click
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other
people.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two
years is not bad.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place
in America.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are
the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to
secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone
else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents- but when you
tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be
misunderstood.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great
weakness in any man.

It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people
talk.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down
rules of conduct for other people.

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens
to be President of the United States.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out
developing new evils requiring new remedies.

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its
restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not
always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not
infrequently come from Congress.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to
them.

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be
more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more
discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the
trouble taken to furnish it.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the
passage of laws as much more important than the results of their
enforcement.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the
fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (September 14, 1934 = April 24, 2002) was born
in Queens, New York City. Her parents were first-generation Americans;
her grandparents were immigrants from Calabria in Southern Italy. The
turmoil of her childhood would have a strong influence on her writing. (Click
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Desire creates its own object.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are
also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in
the imagination.

Food is my drug of choice.

For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up
the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna-fish casserole
is at least as real as corporate stock.

If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God- He's been
in business longer than Werner, and He has better music. (on Werner
Erhard, founder of est)

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

It's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the
same time.

It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it
oppressive- it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream
interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily
re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and
romance.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and
traps: There are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There
is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't
care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm
flesh with equal love.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the
future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the
future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

Silence is the garment of light.

The gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil,
but between the good and the lesser good.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

The past is a sorry country.

There are no inanimate objects.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun
of the most exhausting sort.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much
like calm.

Óscar Arias Sánchez (b. September 13, 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) was
President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the
Central American crisis. He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer
Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and
Security. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the
International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims. (Click
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I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence
and hate.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for
expressing his suffering.

I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to
keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different
world.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that
justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress
for everyone.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many
people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

Only peace can write the new history.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's
soul.

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive,
glamorous or simplistic about it.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing
line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a
never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear,
toward others as well as ourselves.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to
human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and
poverty.

When hope is born, it is necessary to unite courage with wisdom. Only
then is it possible to avoid violence.

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by
his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's
short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm
characterization, and surprise endings.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside
of it.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It
bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your
conscience.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day
of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces
the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must
wear clothes. It is for the best.

Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute.
Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid
temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the
ring for the waiter, and the 'round' of drinks.

Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants
of a State.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance
is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed
women.

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your
enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a
full life.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd
never marry.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of
existence.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us
turn out the way we do.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles
predominating.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism
are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving.

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty.
The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and
he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one
domain and sometimes in the other.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old
age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares;
old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry.

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people
would live longer.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's
spent, your wife until she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till
you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty of a consul in a
foreign town.

David Michael Carr (September 8, 1956 - February 12, 2015) was an
American writer, columnist, and author. He wrote the Media Equation
column and covered culture for The New York Times.(Click
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Civilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people
drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is
the point of that?

Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons; they reveal them.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone,
to come and bury you in your shame.

I became a single parent at a time when nobody would trust me with a
ficus plant. Other than that, I've been sort of a model citizen.

I now inhabit a life I don’t deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling
we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn’t
end soon.

If you dumped every reporter who ever sent a snide message or talked
smack in private, there would be nothing but crickets chirping in
newsrooms all over America.

if your head is in your phone, the scenery never changes.

It's more important that you fit in before you stick out.

Memory becomes not a faculty but a coconspirator, a tool for
constructing the self that we show the world.

Necessity is a mother.

Regardless of how much blather you hear about the two parties bickering
in Washington, the Beltway is really a monoculture that accommodates the
two poles of a debate but very little in between.

Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up
for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up
one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish
things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal- Mart.'

The web is kind of a self-cleaning oven and what you have up there can
grow more accurate as time goes by. That's never true of print. It's
always there for the ages.

There is something terribly existential in all of this: Work all of your
life to scratch out a piece of suburban idyll, and then work some more
so you can afford to get the hell away from it.

To be an addict is to be something of a cognitive acrobat. You spread
versions of yourself around, giving each person the truth he or she
needs- you need, actually- to keep them at a remove.

Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history- the facts of what
happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually
comes out looking damn good in the process.

When memory is called to answer, it often answers back with deception.

When people fear for their futures, they like to gather in a dark room
and stare at a screen, holding hands against the gloom.

Who you are and what you have been through should give you a prism on
life that belongs to you only.

You can have the best search function in the world, but if it is
crawling across a cesspool, it is not going to bring back much of
anything interesting.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they
said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they
accidentally told the truth.

Facebook is a bit like that big dog galloping toward you in the park.
More often than not, it’s hard to tell whether he wants to play with you
or eat you.

Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603) was Queen of England
and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The
Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was
the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. (Click
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

A good face is the best letter of recommendation.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Affection! Affection is false.

All my possessions for a moment of time. (last words)

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not
already tested.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of
elder age.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay.
Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of
love.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a
bore, the fault is in yourself.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

The end crowneth the work.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

The past cannot be cured.

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that
company.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in
teaching her to hold her tongue.

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.-Douglas
Adams

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are
better than you think.-T. Harv Eker

Do not underestimate the power of The Force.-George Lucas

Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated.-Tim Fargo

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.-A.A.
Milne

Friendly cynics and fierce enemies alike often underestimate or ignore
the strong thread of moral purpose which runs through the fabric of
American history.-Lyndon B. Johnson

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe
whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.-Theodore Dreiser

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private
needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't
underestimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care
of social needs.-George Soros

Never underestimate the corrective lens that is sentimentality.-Sarah
Vowell

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.-Claud
Cockburn

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they
already know.-Enrico Fermi

Never underestimate the power of a lot of stupid people working in the
same company.-Karen Boucher

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.-Robert A.
Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of psychosis.-Variously attributed

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.-Variously
attributed

Never underestimate your adversary, not even in a snowball fight.-J.P.
Donleavy

No one in this world, as far as I know.... has ever lost money by
underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.-H.L.
Mencken

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the
Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep
a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.-Jerry Pournelle

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year- and
underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!-Tony Robbins

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.-Henry
Adams

There's a persistent tendency for us to very seriously underestimate how
much design has gone into our brains in the course of our beloved Gaia's
yottaflop parallel computation running on a quintillion processors for
several billion years.-Rudy Rucker

They misunderestimated me.-George W. Bush

Those you say they give the public what it wants begin by
underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.-T.S. Eliot

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.-Leo Buscaglia

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years
and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let
yourself be lulled into inaction.-Bill Gates

Mary Renault (September 4, 1905 - December 13, 1983), born Eileen Mary
Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set
in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus,
Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction
biography of Alexander. (Click
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Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all
free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing,
take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in
secret- there, I have seen is slavery.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing
that his actions must show it.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to
do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be
feared.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a
fallacy as much as an insult.

How can the people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we
loathe, we graft into our very soul.

It is a fact that you can make an audience see nearly anything, if you
yourself believe in it.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too
meanly.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Longing performs all things.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretenses; they are usually
your best weapon against him.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each
moment. Always both at once.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it
takes.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the
expected for which one has refused to prepare.

To crave revenge is to fall down before one's enemy and eat dust at his
feet. What worse can we let him do to us? In hatred as in love, we grow
like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very
soul.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the
desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 - July 9, 1977) was an American
anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who
taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received
many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional
societies. At his death, he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of
Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. (Click
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As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming
corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about
beyond the reach of rivers?

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a
million other lives that were never destined to be born.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

Evolution has to be lived forward.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several
civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should
involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of
God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the
stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get
around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far
side, to realize nature only in retreat.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great
scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Life may exist in yonder dark, but it will not wear the shape of man.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among
us.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the
universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners
drawing mental maps of escape.

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye
other than human.

Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is
it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good
are perpetually within us.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but
we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn
all that we hunger to know.

The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a
more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the
tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind
allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a
habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.

The plan is not what you think.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its
perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is
multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers
are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes
what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. Live long and prosper.-Leonard Nimoy

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. (In
the comic strip Peanuts).-Charles M. Schulz

Life is like a B-grade movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of
it, but you don't want to see it again.-Ted Turner

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.-Variously
attributed

Life is like a buffet; it's not good but there's plenty of it.-Variously
attributed

Life is like a camel; you can make it do anything except back up.-Marcelene
Cox

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.-H. Ross Perot

Life is like a corn maze. Sometimes you just sit down in the middle of
it and burst into tears.-Ted Travelstead

Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery
never changes.-Lewis Grizzard

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism; the way you play it is free will.-Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the
longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.-Jim Davis

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe
it only from the vantage point of distance.-Charles A. Lindbergh

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which
he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.-Harry
Emerson Fosdick

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the
faster it goes.-Andy Rooney

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends upon what you put
into it.-Tom Lehrer

Life is like an analogy.-Variously attributed

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and
sometimes you weep.-Carl Sandburg

Life is like an oven. It burns my buns. (From the comic strip Maxine).-John
Wagner

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was
going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then
being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.-Joseph
Campbell

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument
as one goes on.-Samuel Butler (Novelist, 1835-1902)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.-Albert
Einstein

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you
can't erase it.-E.B. White

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he
is thinking.-Oswald Chambers

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag
about.-Bill Maher

Fundamentalism is terrifying because it is based purely on emotion,
rather than intelligence. It prevents followers from thinking as
individuals and about the good of the world.-Tenzin Gyatso (The
14th Dalai Lama)

I always have a quotation for everything- it saves original thinking.-Dorothy
L. Sayers

I can't concentrate when I'm thinking.-Yogi Berra

I suspect our human 'thinking processes' often 'break down,' but you
rarely notice anything's wrong, because your systems so quickly switch
you to think in different ways, while the systems that failed are
repaired or replaced.-Marvin Minsky

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state appointed
psychiatrist is our 'friend.'.-Jack Handey

I was going to buy a copy of 'The Power of Positive Thinking,' and then
I thought: what the hell good would that do?-Ronnie Shakes

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to
go to summer school.-Peter De Vries

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box
when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.-Terry
Pratchett

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.-Gertrude
Berg

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is
thinking that makes what we read ours.-John Locke

Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for
what it says than for what it makes you think.-Louis L'Amour

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and
unhappiness.-James Thurber

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.-Mortimer
J. Adler

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about
by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of
logical thinking.-Edward de Bono

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of
thinking.-John Kenneth Galbraith

The country that draws a broad line between its fighting men and its
thinking men will find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done
by cowards.-William F. Butler

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific
thoughts, but that it generates a way of thinking.-Stanley R.
Delaney

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.-Matthew
Arnold

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to
himself and to his fellow-men.-Robert G. Ingersoll

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing
too much and you have no room for new ideas.-Ray Bradbury

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't
have any.-Alice Walker

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that
we are still not thinking.-Martin Heidegger

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has, from
people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject
party-mindedness.-Christopher Hitchens

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to
raise people's hopes.-Freeman Dyson

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply
rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo.-Albert Schweitzer

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.-Carson
McCullers

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the
minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.-A.A.
Milne

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking.-Albert Einstein

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.-Hannah
Arendt

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from
thinking.-G.C. Lichtenberg

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.-William
Shakespeare

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.-Buckminster
Fuller

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.-Carl Jung

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.-Sue
Grafton

Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything
self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do
things.-Ray Bradbury

Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are
merely rearranging their prejudices.-William James

Thinking makes man great.-Blaise Pascal

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to
theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.-William
Hazlitt

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking.-Grace
McGarvie

Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies
disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity
implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty- so, obviously, thinking
must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and
reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom.-Adlai
E. Stevenson II

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot
change our thinking.-Santosh Kalwar

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future
generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding
of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society
we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are
based upon.-Richard Dreyfuss

We're living longer, and thinking shorter.-Esther Dyson

What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter
he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.-Marie Corelli

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I
cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now
exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after
you and I shall write and speak no more.-John Adams

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible
development of human capabilities.-Paul Wellstone

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection
must finish him.-John Locke

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you
dignity.-Ellen Key

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know;
it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.-John
Ruskin

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important
lesson science can teach: skepticism.-David Suzuki

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive
propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the
perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and
repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well
proportioned and harmonious nature- this is alike the aim of parent and
teacher.-Herbert Spencer

Education is a condition of imposed ignorance!-Noam Chomsky

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.-Laurence
J. Peter

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.-Will
Durant

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.-Norman
Douglas

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands
and at whom it is aimed.-Josef Stalin

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd
have to pay cash.-Rita Mae Brown

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.-Oscar Wilde

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.-T.H.
White

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.-Robert Frost

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning
what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable,
learning what to choose and what not to choose.-Abraham Maslow

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.-Daniel
J. Boorstin

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.-Lyndon
B. Johnson

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.-John
Dewey

Education is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of
thought.-Bertrand Russell

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and
incidentally or monetarily educative, another.-Kingsley Amis

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is
deluge.-Horace Mann

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to
the people who prepare for it today.-Malcolm X

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.-Henry
Ford

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one
generation to another.-G.K. Chesterton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing
your temper or your self-confidence.-Robert Frost

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.-Alfred
North Whitehead

Education is the best provision for old age.-Aristotle

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the
indifferent by the incompetent.-John Maynard Keynes

Education is the mother of leadership.-Wendell Willkie

Education is the process of throwing false pearls before real swine.-Irwin
Erdman

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.-Variously
attributed

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if
you don't.-Pete Seeger

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to
govern, but impossible to enslave.-Henry Peter Brougham

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call
to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.-Jean
Giraudoux

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.-Barbara
Jordan

Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the
customer tries to get as little as he can for his money.-Max Leon
Forman

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.-Malcolm
S. Forbes

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.-Milton R. Sapirstein

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the
foolish their lack of understanding.-Ambrose Bierce

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.-Edmund
Wilson

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great
equalizer of the conditions of men- the balance-wheel of the social
machinery.-Horace Mann

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for
future living.-John Dewey

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to
distinguish what is worth reading.-G.M. Trevelyan

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.-Mark
Twain

William Lyon Phelps (January 2, 1865 – August 21, 1943) was an American
author, critic and scholar. He taught the first American university
course on the modern novel. He was a well-known speaker who drew large
crowds. He had a radio show, wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column,
lectured frequently, and published numerous popular books and articles. (Click
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't
slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds,
high as prices.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see
him.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given
with sincere respect and admiration.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is
better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the
horizon expands.

At a certain age, people's minds close up and they live off their
intellectual fat.

Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and
domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to
irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to
acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological
moment.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and
those who read to forget.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care,
then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it
would be, I think, an American cow.

If I were running the world, I would have it rain only between 2 and 5
a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs
provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,
including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated
until they acquire some sense.

Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a
fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most
interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

The expression 'as right as rain' must have been invented by an
Englishman.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no
possible service to him.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts.
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who
love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good
conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not
only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs
from inward thoughts and emotions.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they
enjoy life.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope
someday to resemble their parents.

This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be
of no possible value to him.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who
love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company,
good conversation- what are they? They are the happiest people in the
world.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he
should do even if he did not need the money.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone
else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by
living in New York.

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American
science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards
and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of
America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers
Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker
Award for Lifetime Achievement. (Click
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A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful,
pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a
general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an
aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely
realistic.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.

Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope... the
dream that is doomed long before it's broken, that's the worst of all.

If a man could look ahead and see some of the things that no doubt were
going to happen, how could he be happy?.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new
path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than
technology.

Life must occupy but a single point in time, and as time moved forward,
life moved with it.

Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere
is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it.

Much of what we see in the universe... starts out as imaginary. Often
you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in
the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would
then the faith be dead?.

That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried
terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none
of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

The old and the young... The old, who do not care; the young, who do not
think.

There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the
rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is
beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which
to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it.I
think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we
don't know if it even exists...

We are all genetic brothers. The chain of life, tracing back to that
primordial day of life's beginning, is unbroken...

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Norman Ralph Augustine (b July 27, 1935) is a U.S. aerospace
businessman who served as Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to
1977. Augustine served as chairman of the Review of United States
Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
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A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an
athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond,
'What do you have in mind?'.

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there
will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is
currently estimated.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the
answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the
questions.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased
business base.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top
of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to
chance.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock,
not selling advice.

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would
probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

Most projects start out slowly- and then sort of taper off.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you
expect. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect
so much.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been
tried.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the
unexpected should have been expected.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

People working in the private sector should try to save money.
There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable
again.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of
rank.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite
testing.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing,
and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always
increases.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with
a silk sow. The same is true of money.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

The optimum committee has no members.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your
soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion,
the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the
data authenticity.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States.
There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to
intermingle the two.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other
third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes.Charles
Baudelaire

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.H.L. Mencken

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.Alexis
de Tocqueville

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.May
Sarton

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities
of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the
destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and
they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.Rachel
Carson

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and
rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good
will and sentiment.Reinhold Neibuhr

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the
preparation for it.William F. Buckley, Jr.

The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to
chaos.Frank Herbert

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.Tacitus

The more data banks record about us, the less we exist.Marshall
McLuhan

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are
aware of your freedom to choose.Thornton Wilder

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the
more resounding his success.Marquis de Sade

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.Joseph
Priestly

The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our
possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with
gibbets to scare every invader.Oliver Goldsmith

The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded
us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found
to this uniform law of nature.David Hume

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater
will be his power of knowing what to do.Isaac Disraeli

The more gold a man wears around his neck, the more worthless he thinks
himself to be.Michael O'Donoghue

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.Ellen
Key

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the
more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we
were coming.Freeman Dyson

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that
there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at
all.Neil deGrasse Tyson

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.Fyodor
Dostoevsky

The more I practice the luckier I get.Arnold Palmer

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.Madame Roland

The more I see of the monied classes, the more I understand the
guillotine.George Bernard Shaw

The more I think about it, the more I agree with the bees: worship the
Queen and kill the unemployed.Arthur Lotti

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.Richard
Bach

The more lies are told, the more important it becomes for the liars to
justify themselves by deep moral commitments to high-sounding objectives
that mask the pursuit of money and power.Bertram Gross

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.Thomas
Paine

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.Gore
Vidal

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is
found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and
dearer it is.Maimonides

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and
the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like
home, and love, and understanding companionship.Amelia Earhart

The more one forgets himself- by giving himself to a cause to serve or
another person to love- the more human he is and the more he actualizes
himself.Viktor Frankl

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to
place the good in question.Jean-Paul Sartre

The more one judges, the less one loves.Honoré de Balzac

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.Louis
L'Amour

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it
becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in
the direction of the vocal organs.Edgar Rice Burroughs

The more one produces, the less one gets.Norman Augustine

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has a sense of the comic.
It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires the authority in
the art of the comic.Søren Kierkegaard

The more one talks, the less the words mean.Jean-Luc Godard

The more opinions you have, the less you see.Wim Wenders

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.Arthur
Koestler

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards
the religion of solitude.Aldous Huxley

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the
measurement of momentum, and vice versa. ('The Uncertainty Principle' of
quantum mechanics).Werner Heisenberg

The more reason we have to pay attention to life, the less we have to
pay attention to death.B.F. Skinner

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.Anton Chekhov

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the
clearer we should see through it.Jean-Paul Sartre

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.Auguste Rodin

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and
vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.Stephen Ambrose

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's
one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The
more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.Will
Rogers

The more that people understand about the secret machinery of the
universe, the less likely it is that they will be duped and victimized
by television and politicians.Rudy Rucker

The more they know, the more they'll understand. The more they
understand, the more they'll care. Once they care, there's no stopping
them.Sam Walton

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George
Bernard Shaw

The more things change, the more they stay the same.Alphonse Karr

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.John
Kenneth Galbraith

The more useless the application, the better the graphics.Variously
attributed

The more virtuous a man is himself, the less does he suspect baseness in
others.Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.Taylor Caldwell

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries
we haven't.William Arthur Ward

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with
difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary
things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.Maimonides

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more
leisure we have.William Hazlitt

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we
communicate.J.B. Priestley

The more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.Lloyd
Alexander

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of
life.Leo Tolstoy

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;

It is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.Molière
(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics- and our external ones
too- the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to
feel comfortable with who we are- as women and as mothers.Arianna
Huffington

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry,
or depressing its contents seemed to be.Arthur C. Clarke

The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror.Gustave
Flaubert

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.Benjamin
Disraeli

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers,
immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.Noam
Chomsky

The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you
become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You
realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears.
Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing.Bill Watterson

The more you know, the sadder you get.Stephen Colbert

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want
to avoid people.Dian Fossey

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more
energy you will have.Norman Vincent Peale

The more you make people alike, the more competition you have.
Competition is based on the principle of conformity.Marshall
McLuhan

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold- if you have one.Rex
Stout

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to
admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always
looks the best.Will Rogers

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the
greater the profit.Francois Fenelon

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.George S.
Patton

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has
its own cape, sword and little hat.Roy Blount, Jr.